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Blog, 23rd Nov 2012

During the course of our work, offering legal advice to individuals who have found themselves in difficulties, we are seeing more people returning to Ireland who find themselves struggling to find either the assistance or the information they need to establish their new life in Ireland. MRLC works in partnership with NGO’s and organisations advocating […]

Kinsella -v- Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Co Co [2012]

Judgment Title: Kinsella -v- Dún Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Neutral Citation: 2012 IEHC 344 High Court Record Number: 2012 62 JR Date of Delivery: 07/31/2012 Court: High Court Composition of Court: Judgment by: Hogan J. Status of Judgment: Approved   NEUTRAL CITATION NUMBER [2012] IEHC 344 THE HIGH COURT JUDICIAL REVIEW [2012 No. 62 J.R.] […]

Blog, 9th Nov 2012

MLRC is delighted to welcome a number of new staff and volunteers to our team. Sabrina Comerford solicitor has recently joined us for a three month period to the end of December 2012. Sabrina trained as a Solicitor in Malcomson Law Solicitors and qualified in 2008. She has worked in both the Carlow and Dublin […]

Blog 2nd Nov 2012

Here are details of some of our current cases. Many of us have traditionally been of the view that homelessness affects a certain type of person or indeed arises as a result of certain factors or circumstances. Working in MLRC we regularly find that the traditional stereotypes are far from factual reality. In many instances […]

Donegan -v- DCC & Gallagher v DCC [2012]

The Supreme Court has ruled in Donegan v DCC & Gallagher v DCC that section 62 of the Housing Act 1966 (eviction procedure for Local Authority tenancies) is incompatible with Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) as it fails to provide procedural protections […]

Blog 28th Sept 2012

High Court Judicial Review Kinsella – v – Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown County Council Neutral Citation: 2012 IEHC 344 HIGH COURT JUDICIAL REVIEW Record No: 2012 62 JR BETWEEN LISA KINSELLA […]

2012 Annual Report

You can read the report here.

Blog 31st Aug 2012

MLRC has New Offices MLRC has been resident in the Sophia Housing complex on Cork Street since our inception in 2009. We are very grateful for their support as we benefit from access to low cost accommodation and utilities. Sophia Housing has recently facilitated MLRC’s move to larger premises at Cork Street. Substantial upgrading work […]

Bjedov -v- Croatia [2012]

Bjedov v Croatia – is the European Court of Human Rights moving towards providing a substantive right to a home? In the recent case of Bjedov v Croatia before the European Court of Human Rights (42150/09 29th May 2012), a Croatian woman was granted a right to purchase her rented accommodation on the basis of her right […]

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